Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-09-01
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Special Core, po1douCo Oh tie hicA;i. uAHkIIEI
WASHINGTON. y. O.. Sept. / 1887.
DR.. Dorsey Cullen. of Richmond. who
used to be surgeon OF the 1st Virginia re2i-
ment when il and the 18th were first in the
same brigsde of tho Confederate army,
will read paper before the international
medical congress 10 meet nere next Monday
Ex-Rapresentative Barbour has gone to
Deer Park for few days rest. Soon after
his return he will break up his establish
ment here and take permanent quarters at
Alexandria, where the headquarters OF the
democratic committee Of his State, OF Wnich
he is the chairman, have heen located.
A letter was received here to day an.
nouncing the death of j. ?. Mccain, OF
Pennsylvania, who held lucrative place
on the House side of the Capitol
The President was at the White House
TO day, and held cabinet meeting, most OF
the departments being represented theEeat
by deputies.
Mr.. Speaker Carlisle was at the Capitol
to day, and while there had interviews with
several members Of the House, including
Messrs. Mills, Matson and Cultivate. it
is understood that Mr.. Carlisle has been 60
assured OF reelection to the Speakership
that he is already engaged in making up
the House committees. Mr.. Carlisle and
HE wife will 90 to Oak View this evening
and spend several days there, and that while
there he and the President will consult upon
tho measures that will be most likely to
bring the Two wings of the party in the
House together, and to arrange such mat
ters so So not to be bothered by them dur
ing his proposed October trip. MIR. Rauda J.,
it is said, will, and for the same purpose, be
invited to spend some days at Oak View,
later in the month.
The statement that Senator Rid,leberger
has leased the restaurant of the Shenandoah
agricultural fair is the occasion OF no little
talk here, not only among Virginians, but
among other people. who think such action
on the part of Senator of the United
States, even though the Senator says no
| liquor shall be sold there, rather extraor-
binary.
Pennsylvanians here to day seem to think
that Mr.. Randall carried the day ut their
State democratic convention, and that his
victory was strange in view of the general
impression that the majority of the Penn
sylvana democrats, like those of all the
other States, are tariff reformers, and Of the
fact that five of the eight Pennsylvania
democrats in Congress are low tariff men.
Eek Congressman Cobb, of Indiana, an old
time democrat, was at the Capitol to-day.
in talking about the platform recently
adopted by the Virginia democracy, he said
be was both surprised and grieved to see the
democrats of Virginia discarding old demo.
cratic doctrines and adopting those of the
republicans.
In reply to the inquiry. "How about Vir-
ginia ?n Senator elect Daniel who is now
10 New York. said to Tribune Interviewer
yesterday: The democrats will carry it,
but it will not he S walk over. we shall be
obliged to Gght for big majority. Mr..
Barbour, at the head of the State
committee, has fee opportunity and will
do everything 10 improve it,"
It. is now generally acknowledged here,
as the GAZETTE said at first, that the Utes
in the late trouble we're more sinned against
than SHINING.
Some doubt is expressed here as to the power
of the President to appoint the members of the
commission to trcat VITA the commission appoint
ct by England 10 settle the Canadian fishery diff
fcn,tics. but as Gen Grant diin't hesitate TO cx-
erciso simar power aud his right to do so was
GnGuessioned, it is hardly probable serious fault
could be found with N.Y. Cleveland for doing like
! wise